matplotlib.animation.AVConvWriter

class matplotlib.animation.AVConvWriter(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Pipe-based avconv writer.

Frames are streamed directly to avconv via a pipe and written in a single pass.

__init__(*args, **kwargs)

Initialize self. See help(type(self)) for accurate signature.

Methods

__init__(*args, **kwargs) Initialize self.
bin_path() Return the binary path to the commandline tool used by a specific subclass.
cleanup() Clean-up and collect the process used to write the movie file.
finish() Finish any processing for writing the movie.
grab_frame(**savefig_kwargs) Grab the image information from the figure and save as a movie frame.
isAvailable() Return whether a MovieWriter subclass is actually available.
saving(fig, outfile, dpi, *args, **kwargs) Context manager to facilitate writing the movie file.
setup(fig, outfile[, dpi]) Setup for writing the movie file.

Attributes

args_key
exec_key
frame_size A tuple (width, height) in pixels of a movie frame.
output_args